Spaceships hull armor…solid?

[Polydamas]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Not implausible for guided missiles. You saw something very much like that level of accuracy with laser guided bombs in Iraq.

GPS guided bombs are aimed at static targets from free fall not across the relative velocities encountered in spaceship combat, and the targets did not have ECM or the ability to shoot down satellites.

Again, I have never seen an argument that single thick layers of hard dense armour would be a practical scheme for spacecraft armour, whereas there are actual spacecraft which use Whipple shields. Anyone who believes in the first scheme would need to make a case, with the physics.